Little Things Between Us: Ali Silverstein and Jonathan Runcio
The Little Things Between Us, presented by Secteur Privé in an intimate private chateau in West Hollywood, brings together Californian duo, Ali Silverstein and Jonathan Runcio in a quiet, charged dialogue within this domestic yet heightened setting.
In her Bows series, Los Angeles based Silverstein homes in on a single recurring motif: the bow. Long associated with femininity, ornament, and gift-giving, it appears here as a sharpened, emotional sign—at once knot and ornament, binding device and gesture of celebration. Each painting begins with an improvised tracing of a bow form, led more by feeling than strict representation. Those loose, intuitive lines become the armature for increasingly precise decisions, resolving into intricate color relationships and subtle surface rhythms. The works hold a quiet push-pull between withholding and release, intimacy and performance, turning flatness into a space where attention lingers.
Runcio works through a language of constructed abstraction that nods to architecture, infrastructure, and the worn geometries of the built environment. His forms feel deliberate yet vulnerable, as if they are always mid-adjustment—balancing stability with the possibility of shift or collapse. Showcasing five distinct works throughout the chateau, Runcio's works slow the viewer’s movement, drawing the viewer in to the quiet space that oft get overlooked with focus to edges, thresholds, and transitions.
Together, Silverstein and Runcio find common ground in the “in‑between”: the gaps, frictions, and alignments that quietly structure how we relate to one another and to the spaces we inhabit.
